High-resolution UV spectrograph for sounding rocket measurement of planetary emission line profiles

Walter M. Harris; John T. Clarke; Jack Caldwell; Paul D. Feldman; Brett C. Bush; Daniel M. Cotton; Supriya Chakrabarti

doi:10.1117/12.60618

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29 June 1992 A high resolution UV spectrograph for sounding rocket measurement of planetary emission line profiles

Walter M. Harris, John T. Clarke, Jack Caldwell, Paul D. Feldman, Brett C. Bush, Daniel M. Cotton, Supriya Chakrabarti

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Proceedings Volume 1745, Instrumentation for Planetary and Terrestrial Atmospheric Remote Sensing; (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.60618
Event: San Diego '92, 1992, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

We have constructed a high resolution imaging spectrograph for use as a payload in a sounding rocket experiment. The spectrograph employs a modified Ebert-Fastie design using a LiF predispersing prism and a replica of the E1 echelle grating developed for the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. The spectrograph is used as a focal plane instrument of the Jupiter Telescope, a Cassegrain telescope constructed exclusively for use as a sounding rocket payload. The telescope and spectrograph were launched from the White Sands Missile Range on May 4, 1991 to observe the H Ly-alpha line profile spatially resolved across the disk of Jupiter in the north-south and east-west directions, and to measure the H Ly-alpha emission line profile from interplanetary hydrogen associated with the local interstellar medium.

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Walter M. Harris, John T. Clarke, Jack Caldwell, Paul D. Feldman, Brett C. Bush, Daniel M. Cotton, and Supriya Chakrabarti "A high resolution UV spectrograph for sounding rocket measurement of planetary emission line profiles", Proc. SPIE 1745, Instrumentation for Planetary and Terrestrial Atmospheric Remote Sensing, (29 June 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.60618

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